{"id":10068,"date":"2017-05-12T20:13:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T07:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10068"},"modified":"2017-05-13T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T20:13:56","slug":"benny-wenda-apology-to-mana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10068","title":{"rendered":"Benny grateful to MANA for their support."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANA looks forward to hosting Benny and Friends of West Papua in 2018. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewestpapua.org\/\">www.freewestpapua.org<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10070\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/benny-wenda-west-papua-flag-portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10070 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/benny-wenda-west-papua-flag-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/benny-wenda-west-papua-flag-portrait.jpg 770w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/benny-wenda-west-papua-flag-portrait-300x157.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/benny-wenda-west-papua-flag-portrait-768x402.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/benny-wenda-west-papua-flag-portrait-570x298.jpg 570w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/benny-wenda-west-papua-flag-portrait-701x367.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benny Wenda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>I wanted to send you a note to express my regret at not being able to visit Te Tai Tokerau as planned. Thank you for your understanding regarding the cancellation; as you are aware, I am compelled to act in the interests of my people and must seize every opportunity to gain further traction in our fight for independence at the diplomatic level.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am extremely grateful for the time and energy that you, members of MANA and others have poured out for West Papua, not only in organising this latest <\/em>event,<em> but in carrying West Papua in your hearts and continuing to show solidarity with us. The growing support from M\u0101ori is <\/em>testament<em> to your efforts, which are deeply appreciated and will not be forgotten. I only wish I could honour them in person at this time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With my deepest appreciation for your solidarity and support, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Benny Wenda<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Spokesman for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Co-Founder of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANA looks forward to hosting Benny and Friends of West Papua in 2018. www.freewestpapua.org I wanted to send you a note to express my regret at not being able to visit Te Tai Tokerau as planned. Thank you for your understanding regarding the cancellation; as you are aware, I am compelled to act in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10068"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10075,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10068\/revisions\/10075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}